The restaurant usually sells cheese to around 20% of its guests, who like the idea of trying something they cannot easily purchase for home consumption.
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Ms. Davda says there is a trend in India toward out-of-home consumption and a steady shift in consumer preferences, with coffee changing from a beverage that was consumed mostly in South India to one sipped nationwide.
Take the Energy AWARE clock created by Swedish designers that helps you monitor home energy consumption.
Another cool project: the Google Powermeter, software that analyzes home electricity consumption.
The top 10 new food and beverage products thrived on home-based consumption.
Consumer electronics includes devices used to display media at home for personal media consumption.
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In the 1930s, Switzerland wanted to promote cheese consumption at home.
But the effects of jitters over the strength of that U.S. consumption shows that one of the most important reforms China needs now is to reduce its vulnerability to U.S. consumers by boosting consumption at home.
Despite the ban on Pearl island, alcohol can be consumed in Doha's glitzy hotels, and expatriates who have a license can purchase liquor for consumption at home from a store owned by the national airline, Qatar Airways.
Any rise in home prices could still increase consumption, even if it does so by removing credit constraints rather than through the wealth effect.
Two-thirds of that energy consumption in the home is space heating.
With the right app, service or device, it's never been easier to track our personal finances, home energy use, media consumption, calorific intake or miles walked.
If it succeeds, the higher consumption of data in the home would also boost Cisco's business with service providers.
More than half of consumers expressed interest in participating in utility-sponsored energy-management programs, especially programs that allowed them to manage energy consumption through devices in the home or an online portal.
The energy consumption data also could help home and business owners take stock of their energy use and take actions to save money, such as putting in more energy efficient light bulbs and appliances or running washers and dryers only when electric rates are low.
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The monthly data on home, car and retail sales confirm that consumption has broadly stabilised, and a rise in share prices and consumer confidence also bodes well.
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And deeper into the paper you find that they mean LEDs reducing electricity consumption for lighting, more efficient home heating, more insulation, better cars (perhaps electric) and so on.
Other Europeans may lug home as much as they like for their own consumption.
Low household energy costs dampen demand for energy efficiency and most home-appliance manufacturers have hugely reduced their energy consumption in other ways.
Specifically, MyEnergi Lifestyle showcases how combining renewable energy generation with "time-flexible" loads optimizes energy consumption across a plug-in vehicle and home appliances.
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With four-dollar-a-gallon fuel prices here at home, it's simple to just look at fuel consumption as a way to save a few dollars and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
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The increase in consumption could be tenuous as unemployment continues to rise and home prices continue to fall.
They cut consumption, saved on rent and continued to send money home.
Forgitit households are monitored for energy usage and their efficiency is calculated based upon different variables such as the square footage of the home, and all the data is put toward a greater energy consumption metric.
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We expect a further slowdown in home construction, existing home sales, and home price gains, but without a pronounced impact on GDP growth or consumption.
Consumers can interrogate this server from a PC or iPhone to see not only the consumption pattern of various appliances attached to smart plugs around the home, but also to send instructions back to switch them on or off.
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Attaching appliances to a power socket via a smart plug containing sensors and a ZigBee transceiver allows information about the appliances' power consumption to be beamed automatically to a broadband router within the home, and thence to a web server located elsewhere.
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The home-carbonated drink maker put out a confusing environmental message of conserving bottle consumption with DIY beverages.
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The device, inspired by customer feedback revealing that excessive weight (when lugging bottles home from the grocery store, that is) was a major barrier to greater consumption, will be rolled out across other markets in 2013 along with a mobile app for smartphones.
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